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    Nonprofits & Associations work

    Engagements and capability models in nonprofits & associations. Each entry sets out the situation we found, what we diagnosed, the system we built and how it was sequenced.

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    Project ShowcaseReal client work that shipped. No performance figures are published, because none have been verified and approved for release.Nonprofits & Associations

    A message calendar built from the supporter's inbox, not the team's campaign list

    Every team in a nonprofit plans its own sends and nobody plans the year the way a supporter experiences it. This calendar holds one row per message a single subscriber receives, in the order they receive it — so the weeks when four teams all send on a Tuesday are visible in October, not discovered in December.

    Email MarketingContent SystemsContent
    Capability ModelA modelled capability, not a client account. Figures illustrate what the model produces and are labelled as modelled wherever they appear.Nonprofits & Associations

    Revenue up 5.0%, donors down for the fifth straight year — the model spends on the second gift

    Sector giving grew 5.0% in the published data, the strongest revenue growth in five years, while donor counts fell 3.6% for the fifth consecutive annual decline. Fewer people are giving more. The model treats that as a retention problem and puts the budget on the second gift rather than the first.

    Email MarketingCRMReporting
    Capability ModelA modelled capability, not a client account. Figures illustrate what the model produces and are labelled as modelled wherever they appear.Nonprofits & Associations

    Display costs $86 to acquire an email address and returns $1.11 — the published ad table is a ranking, not a menu

    Nonprofit digital advertising has published costs and returns per channel that differ by more than an order of magnitude: $2.81 per email address acquired overall against $86 on display, and $2.48 back per dollar on search against $0.17 on Google Grants. The model reads that table as an order of operations.

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